Identifier: birdsnatureinnat04unse (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature in natural colors.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Chicago : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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e weather or the lack of food necessitates a change of locality. At such timesit is often seen migrating in company with other species of the smaller birds,and it generally seems to be the leader of these small flocks. It is said that theother species will obey the call notes of the Titmouse and when danger is ap-))arent it seems to be the first of the birds to give an alarm. Its shy nature, aswell as its method of catching its food, would naturally make it alert at all times. In an economic sense it is a most useful bird, as it feeds upon insects in allthe stages of their development. It also feeds upon the seeds of various cone-bearing trees. Constantly active the crest of this beautiful bird gives it anadded dignity as it seeks its food, leads a flock or quarrels with one of its kind,as it often does during the nesting season. Probably because of its nesting habits, the Crested Titmouse seems to likethose cone-bearing forests in which there are also deciduous trees. Its nest of 716
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iParus cnstaius).Life-size. grasses, moss, lichens, feathers, hair and other soft materials is usually placedin a hole of some tree or stump. Not infrequently, however, the deserted holesof squirrels or the old nests of crows and magpies are selected. The European Crested Titmouse would be a popular bird and much betterknown were it not for the difficulty of studying the habits of so small an objectin the dense and extensive forests which it frequents. Its characteristics canonly be satisfactorily observed when it is compelled to seek its food in more openplaces. Black-Throated Green Warbler (Dendroica virens) Fange: Breeds in lower Canadian and Transition Zones from west, central,and northeastern Alberta, southern Manitoba, central Ontario, northeastern Que-bec, and New Foundland south to southern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin,northern Ohio, northern New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island, New York,and in the x\lleghenies south to South Carolina and Georgia; winters in Mexico(Nuevo

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